[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A quick note. If you are grepping the output of a ps command, > enclose the first character of your regexp in square brackets. For > example: > > ps aux | grep [l]pr > > This still lists all the processes that contain the string "lpr", but > it will not match the grep process itself anymore.
Why is that? Isn't a bracket expression containing only one character exactly the same as the character by itself? Am I missing something blindingly obvious? :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
